What is Love?

A simple query sometimes has multiple answers:

Child: Love is  hugs, kisses and words.

Little Boy: Love is what buys me a toy car.

Little Girl: Love is what buys me a blink-eyed doll.

Teen-aged boy: Love is freedom on/inside a four wheeler.

Teen-aged Girl: Love is freedom to hike.

Man(early years): Love is tactile and thought.

Woman(early years): Love is verbose and felt.

Man(later years): Love is optical illusion.

Woman(later years): Love is not enough to define.

Old man: Love is who is left after I can't buy anymore.

Old woman: Love is what begins after all ends.

Dying man: Love is who stands beside a poor bed.

Dying woman: Love is what stands beside wizened hands.

Dead man: Love is ceremony.

Dead woman: Love is ritual
Great Man Above: Love is a seven day error.